I'm actually in the library doing some work, exam period tends to make me nocturnal, in fact it seems completely natural for me to be awake now - not tired at all! Anyone up to much or just sat at home?

WELL, one of the things thats stressing me out the most at the moment is that i have to find somewhere i can leave all of my stuff over the summer, i'm leaving in 10 days and i have no idea what to do and dont really have any money to pay for storage :( but at least i finally got around to borrowing enough money for my plane ticket home!

how are you, apart from the stuff you mentioned up there ^^ somewhere?

This really good film set in the 80s about Thatcherism and the effects it had on society during the 80s. You probably saw it advertised. Had some red wine and joints with my flatmate. He went to bed. I;ve been writing crap lyrics and cleaning.

yeah i do know it, i wrote an essay about it a month ago or so. i quite like it, and also quite fancy woody.

i was drinking by myself and then went to the pub with a couple of mates and then came back and drank the rest of my tequila and started this thread and i was planning to go to bed before 5 but its closer to 6 now and i'm not even tired, so i pretty much fail.

If it's in Cardiff (from profile) I know quite a few people there I could ask about it?
I'm ok, bit annoyed at the moment because I've cunningly finally found a guy I reeeeally like at uni but i'm leaving in 3 weeks. Ohwell nice to have met someone I guess, let's just hope that the "one single soulmate" thing isn't true.

but I don't think we talked the entire time we were there. No, we actually *met* during our brief time at university together, although we probably wouldn't have had any real relationship if it weren't for the fact that we had school in common, so the fact that we went to school is relevant, even if we didn't really know each other from there. You?

a friend of mine is supposed to be looking for something for the both of us though. i really dont know whats going on but shes leaving in a few days so hopefully she'll sort something out before then :\

I know what's bugging me now. I washed my bedsheets early eve, and I can't find my other bedsheets because I still have a bit of unpacking to do. And so I can't really go to bed and sleep on an empty matress because the bed bugs might bite me. And I'll be cold. And my flatmate won't let me in her bed because she'll get really tempted. Every bed has bed bugs in it. Yuk. Loads of them.

The common bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is the best adapted to human environments. It is found in temperate climates throughout the world and has been known since ancient times. Other species include Cimex hemipterus, found in tropical regions (as well as Florida), which also infests poultry and bats, and Leptocimex boueti, found in the tropics of West Africa and South America, which infests bats and humans. Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily infest bats, while Haematosiphon inodora, a species of North America, primarily infests poultry.[1]

Oeciacus, while not strictly a bedbug, is a closely related genus primarily affecting birds.

Adult bedbugs are a reddish brown, flattened, oval, and wingless, with microscopic hairs that give them a banded appearance. A common misconception is that they are not visible to the naked eye. Adults grow to 4 to 5 mm (one-eighth to three-sixteenths of an inch) in length and do not move quickly enough to escape the notice of an attentive observer. Newly hatched nymphs are translucent, lighter in color and continue to become browner and moult as they reach maturity. When it comes to size, they are often compared to lentils or appleseeds.

Bedbugs are generally active only at dawn, with a peak attack period about an hour before dawn, though given the opportunity, they may attempt to feed at other times. Attracted by warmth and the presence of carbon dioxide, the bug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug returns to its hiding place. The bites cannot usually be felt until some minutes or hours later, as a dermatological reaction to the injected agents.

Although bedbugs can live for a year or as much as 18 months without feeding, they typically seek blood every five to ten days. Bedbugs that go dormant for lack of food often live longer than a year, well-fed specimens typically live six to nine months. Low infestations may be difficult to detect, and it is not unusual for the victim not to even realize they have bedbugs early on. Patterns of bites in a row or a cluster are typical as they may be disturbed while feeding. Bites may be found in a variety of places on the body.

i stayed in a hostel in london once, i was there just for a gig and went for a nap in the afternoon before leaving for the gig.... woke up 15mins before my alarm was supposed to go off as the bed was CRAWLING with bugs ;( and i'm allergic and all! my face and various other parts of my body was all swollen for DAYS.